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for presuming to point out that all the other evidences I have now been compelled
to quote, were
for
come considerable
time in the Colonial Office before your Despatch N. 42 of the 8th of April
was
signed; and that I am
certainly not responsible for the misconception as to the basis of my proposed reduction of taxation alluded to in paragraphs 3 and 4 of your Duratch
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have dweit
upon
this at some
length, for I should be but little
worthy of the confidence of Her Majesty's Government
ay
Colonial Administrator,
as far as financial matters are ___
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concerned, if I could have been quilty of
to propose reduction
Lo
grave
mistake
A
of
taxation based
balances in hand,
and expecially
balances which it is
implied were in a
great
composed of sume voted In Public works but not expensted.
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It is now ten or eleven
Mears since Lord Granville
enough to
Convey
to
was good
me the
acknowledgments of Iter Majesty's Government for the financial
measures
I had adopted in another
Clorry in the Thina Lene by which the recepity of voting a Grant in
"aid An
from Imperial Funds for that